About Ulajh
| Title: | Ulajh |
|---|---|
| Original Title: | Ulajh |
| Plot: | The journey of a young IFS officer, belonging to a prominent family of patriots, who gets embroiled in a dangerous personal conspiracy while far from her home turf, at a career-defining post. |
| Cast: | Janhvi Kapoor, Gulshan Devaiah, Roshan Mathew, Meiyang Chang, Adil Hussain, Rajesh Tailang |
| Director: | Sudhanshu Saria |
| Cinematography: | Shreya Dev Dube |
| Editor: | Nitin Baid |
Ulajh
Shilajit Mitra
The Hindu
Janhvi Kapoor is caught in an inept thriller
This film about an imperiled IFS officer in London suffers from convoluted writing and misguided ambitions
What sort of a spy movie is Sudhanshu Saria’s Ulajh? It begins as a Raazi (2018) in pantsuits: patriotic female protagonist, driven by loyalty and legacy, enlists to serve her country on foreign turf. Indo-Pak diplomatic relations, as fraught and fragile as they were in 1971, inform the narrative stakes. Both films hail from Junglee Pictures, and the editor, in each case, is Nitin Baid. If that weren’t enough, the new film even has a song with ‘watan’ in its title — plastered, ineffectually, over the opening credits and thereby fast forgotten.